locutus12 said:
That is very understandable as I like to play PC games at highest settings and at 1600 x 1200, but unfortunately while that is ok for you, it is not ok for the majority of people who cannot afford to buy expensive rigs or constantly upgrade every five minutes to play at highest settings (it is not worth having a PC if you don`t for gaming).
Even if the majority of people could afford it they would get ****** off with the constant software/hardware problems,patches, and the usuall god knows how many hours to get the game working optimally.
P.S. the High street prices for console games are shocking !
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Also, the PC has always been the most innovative platform,where people would release new groundbreaking games, because there's no platform holder with ultimate power over whether a game gets released or not or to pay lisencing fees to (hence why PC games are cheaper). Entire genres of games have started off on the pc and took years to become adopted by consoles, and there's tons of games on consoles that started off as pc freeware and got noticed by publishers after they got downloaded a few million times, such as that Alien Hominid game. Now, with the 360 and PS3 both boasting online marketplaces where bedroom coders can actually make real money out of those silly little flash games they used to make in their free time, we're gonna have a lot more of that, and a lot of future Live Arcade top sellers are gonna start out life as PC demos! Remember also that the cost of PCs is still slowly but steadily dropping while it looks like the cost of consoles, console peripherals and especially games, will rise in the immediate future, so a lot more casual gamers, the kind who wouldn't buy a console but own a pc anyway for word processing and net access, will begin to see pc gaming as more approachable, not just cost-wise but in terms of technical accessibility, as things have become a lot stabler since XP came out, both because it's stabler than any previous MS OS but because MS seems to have whipped driver manufacturers into shape with their more stringent certification procedures. so, finally, I don't think what you see in Game should be taken ad representative, as I think (and I'd be interested to know to what extent this is true by the ppl who say they've worked there) that as a chain they mainly target themselves to people buying games for others rather thzn for themselves (parents for their kinds, for instane).
as if anyone might have problems with a PC game and getting it to work properly. I don't understand why anyone would say that, unless it is either to be controversial or they have limited experience of PC games. Or, as I said before, they have an uber PC, or have been lucky in their choice of games.